University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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a turning from the old, tirr.e-beaten ways of managing athletics at Carolina were represen- tative alumni gathered from all points of the compass. By names they were: Walter Murphy and Staple Linn, of Salisbury; Albert L. Cox, Dr. Claud Abernathy, and Perrin Busbee, of Raleigh; Brent Drane, George Thomas, and J. A. Parker, of Charlotte; W. F. Carr and Dr. Foy Roberson, of Durham; J. M. Thompson, of Graham; and James A. Gray, Jr., of Winston-Salem. Representing the faculty at the meeting were President Venable, Professors Herty, Mangum, Raper, Howell, Henderson, Royster, Graham, Patterson, and Winston. Student representatives were: L. P. McLendon, graduate manager; W. E. Wakeley, pres ' dent of the Athletic Association; W. S. Tillett, former capta ' n of the football team ; and the new captain, L. L. Abernathy ; Walter Stokes and Frank Graham from the Greater Council; and G. L. Carrington, Editor of the Tar Heel. The significant, far-reaching step taken by these members of the alumni, in con- ference with representatives from the faculty and students, in its ultimate analys ' s, signifies the gaining of a large control of the administration of athletics at the University by the alumni. It was the cropping out and realization of a feeling that has been silently nurtured by the alumni of the State that they should be duly recognized in the administraton of athletic affairs at Carolina. They were hostile to any view that athletics should be an open-and-shut-game between faculty and students. The plan as submitted by the alumni, and approved by students and faculty, provides for the adoption of an alumni system of coaching to the degree of: providing for an alumni council com- posed of four alumni, a member of the faculty and two students ; this committee to have complete control of coach ' ng and provide for the expenses of coaching : then with representation on a resident committee, with the power to make schedules, purchase supplies, make local arrangements, etc., the alumni are assured a large hand in controlling athletic affairs. The plan thus adopted, in its final form, is an admixture of the plans of administration of athletics in force at Harvard and Princeton Universities. Additional to the inauguration of a distinct feature of the alumni system, the year has furnished the athletic system with the long-desired virtue of a contmuity in the management of all athletic teams and all athletic activities by the method of providing for a graduate manager and treasurer. These offices are capably filled, respectively, by L. P. McLendon and Proctor C T. Woollen. Still another advanced step towards building athletics on a more substantial basis is the newly instituted five-dollar fee for membership in the Athletic Association, which entitles every member to see every athletic contest on the home grounds. riVE.vry- three

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Victor Aldine Coulter Babbitt Fellowship Clarence Ballew Hoke Assistant in Chemistry Cornie Blake Carter Assistant in Chemistry Jackson Townsend .. Assistant in Chemistry Paul Roby Bryan.. Assistant in Chemistry Frank Daniels Conroy Assistant in Chemistry Grady Rudicill Roberts Assistant in Anatomy William Battle Cobb Assistant in Botany John Madison Labberton .....Assistant in Electrical Engineering Louis DeKeyser Belden, S.B Assistant in Physiology Robert Campbell Jurney Assistant in Geology John Jay Henderson Assistant in German James Stevens Simmons Assistant in Histology John Robert Gentry ......Assistant in the Library Jesse Forbes Pugh Assistant in the Library Thomas Michael Ramsaur .....Assistant in the Library Edgar Ralph Rankin Assistant in the Library George Pickett Wilson.. Assistant in the Library William Walter Rankin, B.E. Assistant in Mathematics Julian Nolley Tolar .....Assistant in Pathology GREENWOOD, A.B.... Assistant in Pharmacology James Blaine Scarborough Assistant in Physics Jesse Lewis Phillips Assistant in Surveying Allyn Raymond Brownson Assistant in Zoology Robert Cannon Sample ..Assistant in the Infirmary THOMAS SPURGEON HUGHES Assistant in the Gymnasium CARL Duffy TAYLOR Assistant in the Gymnasium OTHER OFFICERS Julius Algernon Warren. Treasurer Charles Thomas Woollen Proctor Thomas James Wilson, Jr., Ph.D Registrar Marvin Hendrix Stacy, A.M. Recorder of Absences Edmund Pleasant Hall, General Secretary of the Young Men ' s Christian Association FOURTEEN

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Commenting on this home-source revenue plan, Frank Graham, writing in the Alumni Review, says: With this more substantial financial basis, and with concentrated respon- sibility in an efficient council to supplant what proved to be desultory, inexperienced, and unbusinesslike management, athletics at the University are on a foundation for gradual growth into greater effectiveness. The Greater Council Paitly as an outgrowth of the stu- dent council proper, and in a large measure a branching off into a distinct field of its own, the present college year has given birth to a student organization known as The Greater Council. The function of this new creation, arising to meet the demands of the increasing con plexily of college life, is not of judgment for the rightng of grievances or the punshment of evildoers, but is an organization of rep- resentative students striving to offer solutions for the problems of student life — endeavoring to associate harmoniously the units of college life, relate them, and thus promote interests of the University as well as student life on the campus. A typical illustra- tion of the work undertaken by the Greater Council can be ascertained from a para- graph in the November issue of the University Magazine, by the president of the council, Walter Stokes, Jr., under the nom de plume R. J. Sekots Retlaw : We are striving for perfect social health. The social health of our community is more solid now than at any previous time during the writer ' s sojourn in it. Yet we must evolve further if we would have perfect social health. The whole, composed of systemat ' zed, well-balanced units, may be a forward step. Then Mr. Stokes proceeds to offer a salient remedy towards bettering social life by making the academic classes the units of the whole through the medium of having the classes room by themselves. This is only one of the many problems of campus l ' fe to which The Greater Council will direct its careful attention; and its activities in many fields of reform imke it unmstakably certain thai it has a mission in college life, and is an organization here to stay. This year ' s Council is composed of the following students representing the various classes: Regular Council, W. G. Harry, Frank Graham, A. L. Hamilton, J. N. Tolar, D. H. Carlton, Phillip Woollcott, and Walter Stokes, Jr. ; Graduate Class, P. H. Gwynn, Jr. ; Senior Class, M. T. Spears and G. B. Phillips; Junior Class, Leno : r Chambers, Jr.; and S. W. Whilmg; Sophomore Class, W. P. Fuller and T. C. Boushall; Medical Class, J. S. Milliken; Law Class, J. T. Johnston; Pharmacy Class, C. L. Cox. The Central Organization of County Clubs Analagous to the other definite movements of the college year toward weaving the University and the State into a Siamese-twin relationship, is the perfection of a central TirE.XTr-FtTR